How to freeze plums in the freezer

You can freeze the plum in the freezer by simply placing the fruit for a day. However, after thawing, it may happen that the tasty fruit turns out to be an unpleasant-looking porridge. The problem lies in the violation of the freezing technology. To avoid such a nuisance, you must follow the recipe exactly.

Preparing plums for freezing

In order to freeze plums in the freezer for the winter, and after thawing to get a whole product, the fruits are carefully prepared. The process involves sorting and removing the stalks.

In order for the freezing to be successful, the following rules are followed:

• Only those plums that have a firm, tasty and not watery pulp are suitable for the freezer.
• Only ripe fruits need to be frozen for the winter. Unripe and overripe fruits cannot be frozen.
• It is best to freeze plums of those varieties whose fruits tolerate transportation. Such fresh fruits can last a long time, and they will not lose their quality in the freezer.
• It is better to feast on juicy plums right away. You cannot put it in the freezer. After thawing, the pulp will turn into porridge.

If it was possible to sort the fruits in compliance with these simple rules, then half of the way to harvest fruits for the winter has already been passed.

Is it possible to freeze plums

The advantage of freezing fruits for the winter is that they retain all natural vitamins and minerals. This also applies to plums. Jams, compotes, drying, jellies prepared for the winter come with heat treatment. In addition to taste, the product is not rich in anything else. Partially, only a few useful substances remain. Frozen plum taken in winter after thawing is practically no different from fresh fruit. The consistency of the pulp, of course, will change slightly, but the fruit will remain as healthy and nutritious.

What properties are preserved when freezing plums

Fresh plums are rich in vitamin C. Juice and pulp contain pectin and sugar. B vitamins are present, as well as A and PP. When blast-frozen in the freezer, all substances are retained. For the winter, a person completely provides himself with a natural vitamin product.

The benefits of frozen and fresh plums are the same:

• The fruit is an excellent laxative and diuretic.
• Recipes of folk healers recommend the use of thawed pulp for hypertensive patients, with liver and heart disease.
• A defrosted product eaten on an empty stomach stimulates the appetite.
• In patients with jaundice, the fruit relieves yellowness.

The defrosted product is quite suitable for diets, preparation of baby food.

What varieties of plums are suitable for freezing

You can put any kind of plum in the freezer for the winter. It will freeze, but what is the nutritional value after thawing. There are varieties that are best shock freezed:

• Anna Shpet - late-ripening Germanic variety. The dense dark blue flesh freezes well, but the small pit is difficult to separate. Such fruits are sent to the freezer as a whole.
• Grand Duke - large-fruited variety. The orange fruit weighs about 60 g.The stone does not separate well, but because of the meatiness, the plum can be cut into slices and frozen for the winter.
• Greengage - best of all keeps marketable qualities in the freezer. The bone is separated well. The product can be kept whole or in slices.
• Prunes Is a popular variety. The stone separates perfectly from the dense pulp.

Do not freeze the "Ekaterininskaya" variety because of the soft pulp. After thawing, they will become gruel. Victoria can be frozen, but the specific taste will not improve after being in the freezer.

Do I need to wash the plum before freezing

The collected fruits are covered with a natural wax coating, to which a lot of dust adheres. Before sending the crop for storage for the winter in the freezer, it must be washed. Even if, after an unsuccessful freezing, the product becomes gruel, it will be clean and suitable for making mashed potatoes or compote.

The plum is washed thoroughly 2 or 3 times. Clean fruits are laid out on a cloth to dry. The process can be accelerated by wiping with a paper towel.

How to freeze plums in the freezer for the winter

In order not to get confused with varieties, it is better to freeze late-ripening plums for the winter. They are usually hard and can be stored for a long time. It is advisable to send fruits to the freezer immediately after purchase or collection from the tree. So that the whole product or slices do not freeze into a ball, they are frozen in one layer on a pallet for 24 hours, and then packed in portions into packages.

There are many recipes. The best are those where it is meant to preserve the fruit in slices or as a whole. Such a product does not lose its nutritional value. Freezing is only needed shock, in which the fruits are placed in a freezer with a maximum set low temperature.

Whoever is not satisfied with whole fruits, there are recipes where the pulp is processed on mashed potatoes, covered with sugar, poured with syrup. The taste is improved due to additional ingredients, but the product loses its natural nutritional value.

How to freeze pitted plums

The easiest way to keep fresh for the winter is to freeze whole plums. The recipe is simple. After sorting and washing, the fruits are dried on a cloth. Having spread out in one layer on a tray, they are sent to the freezer. It is advisable not to allow the fruit to come into contact in order to prevent freezing. When the pulp becomes "glassy", start packing in packages, sign the date with a marker, and leave it for further storage for the winter.

How to freeze pitted plums

The pitted freezing recipe gives free rein to imagination. The pulp can be cut into slices, slices, strips. If the pits are well separated, the fruit can be kept intact by removing the pith through a small incision.

The pulp of the washed and dried plum is cut into pieces of the desired size. The prepared mass is laid out in one layer on a dish and sent to the freezer. Pieces of shock freezing will become "glass" in about 4 hours. Now the product can be packed in packages and sent for further storage.

Plum frozen with sugar

Those with a sweet tooth will love the freezing recipe, where sugar is an additional ingredient. Its amount depends on the natural sweetness of the plum. Usually housewives use 1 part sugar for 5 parts prepared pulp. Whole plums are not frozen this way. The product is a sticky lump. After defrosting, a sweet puree is practically obtained, where the bones will only interfere.

From the ingredients you will need:

• 5 kg plums;
• 1 kg of granulated sugar.

The freezing process consists of the following steps:

1. The pulp is cut into slices. Better to give preference to slices.
2. Pieces of plums are laid out in layers in a saucepan, sprinkled with sugar.
3. The entire contents of the container are gently mixed in order to crush the slices as little as possible.

Now it remains to pack the product into containers and send it to the freezer. You can even save slices with sugar for the winter in plastic bags.

Freezing plums for the winter in sugar syrup

The final product prepared according to this recipe resembles fresh plum jam without heat treatment. To remove the skin, the fruit will have to be immersed in boiling water for a short time, but it still remains fresh. However, after such actions, natural vitamins are partially lost.

Of the ingredients you will need:

• plums;
• water;
• sugar.

The syrup is prepared from 0.5 kg of sugar and 1 liter of water. It needs so much to completely cover the fruits laid out in containers.

In the syrup, you can freeze the fruit with the skin, cut into a slice. It is allowed to fill in whole plums, pre-piercing the skin with a fork. If it is decided to cook only pure pulp in syrup, do the following steps:

1. The plum is immersed in boiling water for thirty seconds. The skin will crack and separate easily from the pulp.
   
2. The pulp is carefully cut with a sharp knife. Remove the bone.
3. Syrup is made from water and sugar. Cool it to a temperature of +6^aboutFROM.
4. Pour plum slices with chilled syrup so that it slightly covers them.
   
5. The finished mass is laid out in containers, covered with a lid, and sent to the freezer.

After defrosting, a delicious, sugar-soaked fruit is obtained.

How to freeze plums for the winter in bags

A plastic bag is the most common freezer container. Plums can be folded whole, pitted or sliced. You can even pack mashed potatoes in packages. Whole fruit or slices are pre-frozen on a tray before being placed in a bag, and only then packaged. The portions are calculated so that the thawed product is sufficient for a single use. Before placing in the freezer, air is removed from the bag with plums through a straw or a vacuum pump.

The modern method is vacuum freezing of plums. To do this, you need to have special bags and a device - a vacuum degasser. The fruit is completely covered with a film without oxygen.

How to Freeze Sugar Plum Puree in the Freezer

Soft, overripe, juicy and bursting plums do not need to be thrown away. They can also be frozen for the winter, only in the form of mashed potatoes. The process consists in removing the seeds and grinding the pulp into a pasty gruel. Sugar is added to taste. If the plums are very sweet, then it is not needed. You can grind with a meat grinder or blender. To prepare mashed potatoes without pieces of skin, the fruits are pre-poured with boiling water and peeled.

Plum puree is convenient to freeze by spreading out in silicone molds. When the mass becomes "glassy", the figures are removed from the molds, packaged in packages, sent for further storage.

Freeze plum slices for the winter

The most convenient and popular way of freezing is considered to be slices. In winter, it is convenient to take out a portioned bag of ready-to-eat fruit from the freezer. To freeze the slices, whole fruits are sorted, washed, dried on a cloth.

After drying, each fruit is cut lengthwise with a knife, the bone is removed. The slices are laid out on a dish or tray, dimpled up, sent to the freezer. After about 4-7 hours, the pulp will become "glassy". The slices are packed in bags or containers, sent for further storage in the freezer.

The freezing process is shown in the video at the end of the article.

What to cook with frozen plums

Before you can cook something from frozen foods, they must be properly defrosted. If the ingredient is needed for cooking compote, then it can be thrown into boiling water directly from the freezer. Slow defrosting is used for all other foods that require the preservation of whole fruit. The plums are allowed to thaw in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator.

The slices are great for filling a pie.Roll out the bottom from the yeast dough, lay out the thawed plums, add sugar, pieces of butter. The top is also closed with dough, and the edges are covered. Bake the cake in the oven at a temperature of 210^aboutFrom until golden brown.

Frozen plum puree can be used to make delicious marmalade. The mass is boiled until thick, until it begins to lag behind the bottom of the pan. The boiled puree will be reduced by about half. The marmalade is given time to harden, cut into pieces, and sprinkled with sugar.

Conclusion

Freezing a plum for the winter, if there is a chest freezer at home, is not difficult. You just need to follow the technology and properly prepare the ingredients.

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